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Drupal 7 Will Reach End-of-Life in November of 2021 (drupal.org)

Posted by msmash on from the end-of-life dept.

Drupal 7, which was first released in January 2011, will reach end of life (EOL) in November of 2021, the Drupal Association said today. What this means for your Drupal 7 sites is, as of November 2021: 1. Drupal 7 will no longer be supported by the community at large. The community at large will no longer create new projects, fix bugs in existing projects, write documentation, etc. around Drupal 7.
2. There will be no more core commits to Drupal 7.
3. The Drupal Security Team will no longer provide support or Security Advisories for Drupal 7 core or contributed modules, themes, or other projects. Reports about Drupal 7 vulnerabilities might become public creating 0 day exploits.
4. All Drupal 7 releases on all project pages will be flagged as not supported. Maintainers can change that flag if they desire to.
5. On Drupal 7 sites with the update status module, Drupal Core will show up as unsupported.
6. After November 2021, using Drupal 7 may be flagged as insecure in 3rd party scans as it no longer gets support.
7. Best practice is to not use unsupported software, it would not be advisable to continue to build new Drupal 7 sites.
8. Now is the time to start planning your migration to Drupal 8.

23 of 46 comments (clear)

  1. Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    EOL the whole project, in fact.

    1. Re: Good by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 2

      Which one would be better: EOL Drupal or EOL WordPress?
      Let's say you can only ban one from the internet.

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    2. Re: Good by drinkypoo · · Score: 2

      Which one would be better: EOL Drupal or EOL WordPress?
      Let's say you can only ban one from the internet.

      It has to be WordPress. Drupal is far from perfect, but WP is even farther.

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    3. Re: Good by CaptnCrud · · Score: 3, Informative

      Moot. They're both equally fucked.

    4. Re: Good by xonen · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I suggest not to listen to strangers on the internet ranting about something from their boycave, and just use what fits your needs best.

      Yes i dislike WP too. And drupal too. Any CMS really. But when i have to make a website for the boss, i just pull one of them of the shelve and get the job done. Preferably one that's still supported in 5 year, depending on the site. Anything mission-critical is not made with such CMS anyways, it serves another purpose and another market and pretty much any of them does what it needs to do. Just like your smartphone - when was the last time you seriously cared about the brand of phone as long it worked?

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    5. Re: Good by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      Wordpress is shit, but at least it lets fools update through the admin interface rather than require hiring an overpriced outsourced development team because your modules are fucked on every manual upgrade.

      I've been running Drupal since 4.somethingorother and upgrades have been largely smooth throughout. Maybe I'm just good at picking modules. But this 7-8 transition isn't working for me. I've got a couple years before I actually have to convert, so maybe they'll get migration working correctly by then.

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    6. Re: Good by xonen · · Score: 1

      Usually i write 'including me' when i make that statement but you figured it out. Sorry bout your head though.

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  2. Remember to avoid offending anyone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    During your move to Drupal 8 - certainly don't admit to holding any views contrary to Drupal's "community" norms. And if you threaten Dries IPO prospects in ANY way, watch the Drupal org break all of their stated principles to burn you.

    1. Re:Remember to avoid offending anyone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      If you're a cunt you deserve those consequences.

      Except Drupal sided with the stalker and doxxer and punished the victim because the perpetrators felt "uncomfortable".

  3. considering all the holes, might be better worded: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Now is the time to start planning^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H your migration to something else

  4. How unfortunate by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    I've tried to migrate my site to D8, and the body content isn't displayed, and nobody on the forum responded at all. What a PITA. Guess I should get on that a bit more.

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  5. People still use Drupal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I haven't even thought about in months... I mean I'm glad people are choosing something that isn't the steaming pile of U+1F4A9 that is WordPress, but...

    Isn't it time for something new? Better? Perhaps not written in PHP? Perhaps written by actual software developers and not web designers who need someplace to sell their themes?

    1. Re:People still use Drupal? by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 2

      ExpressionEngine 5 is now open source. Seeing some of their (stupid/dumb) design decisions, I'd say these guys have more of a database background than a web designer background.

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  6. RIP Drupal by future+assassin · · Score: 1

    and I for one would like to welcome our new resurrected Drupal overlord called Backdrop CMS

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    1. Re:RIP Drupal by Asteconn · · Score: 1

      Our web shop has completely ceased using drupal for new websites now; we've tried drupal 8 and it simply doesn't fit the needs for our customers. Our upgrade path will be to Backdrop

    2. Re:RIP Drupal by future+assassin · · Score: 1

      As someone who can't code their way out of a wet paper bag I manged to create some pretty nice and complex websites with D7. Then D8 came along and was like WTF? Can't even install it on a shared host with out having shell access. Discovered Backdrop and its pretty nice although had to go to Wordpress/Woocommerce as Ubercart is just not feature rich and the Commerce port has stagnated.

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  7. Re:Stop obsolescence by hierofalcon · · Score: 2

    Drupal 7 runs on php7.2.

    It does require money and time to do security analysis on old code. That is a fact of life. They're looking at migrating to Drupal 9 down the road, and 7 will be EOL'd. They're giving a long time duration warning for when EOL will happen.

    That said, I haven't looked to see how many Drupal 7 modules haven't yet or won't be ported to Drupal 8. The module support is Drupal's Achilles heel if anything. The core isn't awful to move from release to release. But when large numbers of add-on modules are unsupported in the next release because the Drupal developers have changed things in annoying ways (even if for perfectly good reasons) it makes it tough to upgrade end user websites if there is no comparable functionality. You either drop those features or hope for the best, or if the functionality has been merged with core, you do a big database alteration to try to get the old functionality with the new core. With the number of severe security holes in 8 and 7 lately, hoping for the best isn't a good plan.

  8. drupal.org isn't dogfooding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    According to the makefiles in https://bitbucket.org/account/user/drupalorg-infrastructure/projects/PROJ, drupal.org is itself still using Drupal 7. Despite Drupal 8.0.0 being released in November 2015. I won't feel comfortable migrating my Drupal 7 site to Drupal 8 until the Drupal.org infrastructure team is confident enough in the 8.x branch to eat their own dogfood.

    Meanwhile, groups.drupal.org appears to be using a patched version of Drupal 6, which went EOL in February 2016.

    Is the November 2021 Drupal 7 EOL going to be a "Hard Drexit" or a "Soft Drexit"?

    CAPTCHA: taking

  9. Re:Stop obsolescence by viperidaenz · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they should spend some time to migrate drupal.org off of Drupal 7.63

    Why would you upgrade to 8 if the creators of it won't upgrade their own site?

  10. Re:bunch of stuff by ls671 · · Score: 3, Informative

    No it is not!

    There are migration scripts available but your mileage may vary especially if you wrote custom stuff. Third party modules may also be a concern.

    https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/...

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  11. Will it be on Netflix? by Prien715 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does that mean I can't catch season 6 of Drupal's drag race on Netflix?

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  12. Migration path? by manu0601 · · Score: 1

    How straightforward is the migration path?

    My previous experience of Drupal (a long time ag) was that it was easy to setup a gorgeous site, but that making it is update-prone was not a layman's job. Odds were good that it would need a complete reimplementation.

  13. Drupal and Contributed Modules by SAH · · Score: 1

    I have several web sites running Drupal 7. The biggest issue that prevents me from migrating to Drupal 8 is the status of several contributed modules that I depend on. If they don't have a Drupal 8 version available (and there are many that don't), I have to either update them myself or find an alternative. The most common reaction I get from the developers of these modules when asked about their plans for Drupal 8 is silence...